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Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 05:38:53 2019 No.10854102 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>10854111 >>10854113 >>10854304

What formative experiences made you more interested in mathematics? (Wholesome math thread)
>be 14 yo me
>got fancy graphing calculator for christmas
>Casio FX-9750GII
>spend christmas break playing with it
>teach myself to program its version of basic
>start doing random math shit
>one day program it sum $\sum^{10000}_{n=1}n^-2$
>get result
>write it down and start playing with it
>after a while realize it's almost exactly $\pi^2\over {6}$
>feel super accomplished and like I discovered something

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Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 05:46:33 No.10854111 Report

Quoted By: >>10854129

>>10854102
when i was in 4th grade we were learning about angles and degrees. i noticed they would add up to a certain number depending on the shape. i asked the teacher why, and if this is always true (but in 4th grader speak) and she said ‘huh, idk lol, anyway umm..’

but yeah, it got me interested and curious. i eventually found an answer to my question

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Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 05:50:50 No.10854113 Report

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>>10854102
I dont do math but I always enjoyed it and didnt really have a problem with it. Ive taken up to DE. dont think I had under a B+ in any class, it's not immediately intuitive to me but after practice it clicks and feels like magic. I dunno, there is something so fundamentally great about manipulating numbers to create other numbers, and when those numbers actually represent real world parameters, and then your calculations are actually useful and immediately applicable into the real world, it's just a great fucking feeling. Too bad I find cells more interesting, in another world I would have liked to have dove balls deep into math

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Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 05:56:17 No.10854120 Report

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>Did ok in the national physics olympiad.
>Figure that physics has some weird mathematical tools I don’t understand
>pick up proofy books
>enjoy it
Feels like Hardy when he read Cours d’Analyse or

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Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 06:05:59 No.10854129 Report

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>>10854111
The absolute state of math teachers

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Anonymous Thu 01 Aug 2019 08:45:20 No.10854304 Report

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>>10854102
I started having an interest in math because I like the aesthetic of really complex equations and formulas. Ones that had a bunch of random letters and Integrals and summations everywhere but that fit nicely to some degree. It's weird but yeah I guess by the way the "language" looked.

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